Hello. Here is a list of 15 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Everything Store book by Brad Stone. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
The Everything Store Quotes
- There is so much stuff that has yet to be invented. There’s so much new that’s going to happen. People don’t have any idea yet how impactful the Internet is going to be and that this is still Day 1 in such a big way. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- If you want to get to the truth about what makes us different, it’s this, we are genuinely customer-centric, we are genuinely long-term oriented and we genuinely like to invent. Most companies are not those things. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it. – Alan Kay – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- We don’t make money when we sell things. We make money when we help customers make purchase decisions. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- Great merchants have never had the opportunity to understand their customers in a truly individualized way, e-commerce is going to make that possible. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- Look, you should wake up worried, terrified every morning. But don’t be worried about our competitors because they’re never going to send us any money anyway. Let’s be worried about our customers and stay heads-down focused. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority. That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can’t excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- Physically, I’m a chicken. Mentally, I’m bold. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- We don’t view ourselves as a bookstore or a music store. We want to be the place for someone to find and discover anything they want to buy. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- There are two kinds of retailers: there are those folks who work to figure how to charge more, and there are companies that work to figure how to charge less, and we are going to be the second, full-stop. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- Treat Google like a mountain. You can climb the mountain, but you can’t move it. Use them, but don’t make them smarter. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- Developers are alchemists and our job is to do everything we can to get them to do their alchemy. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- When given the choice of obsessing over competitors or obsessing over customers, we always obsess over customers. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- We pay attention to what our competitors do but it’s not where we put our energy. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone
- We humans are getting awfully sophisticated in technological ways and have a lot of potential to be very dangerous to ourselves. It seems to me that we, as a species, have to start thinking longer term. – Jeff Bezos – Quote from The Everything Store book by Brad Stone